BNP supporters facing torture in jails: Rizvi

Staff Reporter :
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Monday expressed concern that many jailed BNP leaders and activists have been pushed towards death because of alleged torture and substandard food supplied to them.

“Our leaders and workers are being subjected to various inhumane torture and attitude inside and outside the prison to suppress them. Prisoners are being tortured indescribably and brutally,” said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

While speaking at a virtual press briefing, he also said the imprisoned opposition leaders and party men are being killed by depriving them of treatment.

“The sick prisoners are being left in prisons with chains on their hands and feet instead of sending them to hospitals.”

The BNP leader also said the jailed BNP leaders and activists are being locked up day and night in suffocating cells in prisons.

“They are being made sick and pushed to death with very poor quality food. After the death of prisoners, the government and law enforcement agencies are making up stories to avoid responsibility,” he alleged.

Rizvi warned that the government and the prison officials will not be able to avoid the responsibility for deaths in jail custody. “They must face trial for every death and killing.”